Data Visualisation

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Data Visualisation

• MSc Module
• Dr Kevin Hughes, room 3.28 Houldsworth Building
• Semester 2 2008

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Outline of Visualisation Course

• Practical based course
• Nominally 10 hours in total
• G-Sharp (simple 1 and 2D visualisation)
• Commercial CFD Software FLUENT
• Animation software (FLUENT)
• Examined via a coursework exercise
• Probably 2 questions requiring use of Fluent,
  typically with 10 page report.

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Course Objective

• Familiarise you with the practical use of
  visualisation software
• Final projects
• Future employment
• Underlying theory behind software
• http//www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/cfd/people/visu
  alisation.htm (These slides course notes from
  2005 when this was last given as a series of
  lectures)
• Books

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Books

• The Visualization Toolkit (3rd edition)
• W Shroeder, K Martin, W Lorensen Kitware Inc
• Introduction to Volume Rendering
• B. Lichtenbelt et al - Prentice Hall (1998)
• Information Visualization
• R. Spence Addison-Wesley (2001)
• Scientific Visualization Tech Applns
• K W Brodlie et al
• Springer Verlag (1992)

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Proposed Plan

• This week, work through the G-sharp Introductory
  Tutorial, and the 2nd tutorial if you want.
• Next week the 2nd G-sharp tutorial (and
  possibly FLUENT tutorials) start at an earlier
  time? (10am 2pm)
• - you dont have to miss lunch!
• - more opportunity to work individually.
• Subsequent weeks FLUENT, again from 10am in
  2.12
• G-sharp Available for students, see me for a
  copy (40Mb)